counting underway in the referendum on egypt's new islamist back constitution with early results suggesting the document is on track to pass after a month of violent protests and fierce clashes with moscow a step closer to banning all adoptions of russian children by americans the moves been triggered by an increasing number of abuse cases and even some deaths. and all you might not want to find under the christmas tree as festive shopping fever gathers pace we look at what gifts risk ending up in the garbage the very next day .

it's five am in moscow i'm at present good to have you joining us here on r t our top story according to early results egypt's constitution is on track to pass the public ballot after a month long protest the second and final stage of the referendum preceded by a fresh outbreak of violence in the country's second largest city i'll xandra journalist bel true has more from cairo. the million dollar question is of course how this will turn out in the first round it was seven fifty seven percent voted in support of the constitution and it's said that this is most likely to be a yes vote in the second round this is because the governor is going to. rule government governors with a strong mission brotherhoods base in them also three only three of the governor

it's actually voted against the mission by the head of the presidential elections again president obama most people think unless you're saying it's most likely to be a yes the opposition forces that passes saying that there is many instances of electoral violations right streets of also chimed in to releasing reports on the hour all the different electoral violations including missing ballots judges not supervising polling stations but it's going missing is that many believe maybe a vote rigging which would see a yes vote in the end the biggest news of the day however is the resignation of the vice president mohammad necchi this is largely seen to be perhaps because in the draft constitution as it currently stands there is no codes for the vice president although no official reason was given for his resignation many believe this is a strong sign to the president they believe the constitution will be yes because his post does not exist here in cairo people are just waiting for the feeling is still very very tense here i mean the background to the violence the last month we

saw quite violent scenes in alexandria egypt second city on friday between rival protest groups there is in support of the constitution and those against the constitution we saw it seventy seven people injured in the police have to get involved with tear gas and of course there's a bloody scene in front of the cairo's presidential palace about three weeks ago now we saw ten people die when those who support the president clashed against those who are against the president at the moment people are quite tense as they're waiting for the results of the referendum if there is a factor yes we would like to see an escalation from the opposition forces which could see the violence on the streets. blogger and journalist while it's candor in cairo explains why he doesn't support the constitution i did vote myself and i've voted no for the constitution and i think that the vote this vote is not about the constitution but about the legitimacy of the muslim brotherhood and the direction they're taking the country the constitution itself is very flawed it takes away

more freedoms it gives police powers to detain people for for more than twelve hours for twelve hours and it's immense the military role in egypt something unprecedented in all of egypt's constitution the numbers so far in the past results have indicated that this constitution will pass the amount of voting illegal irregularities confirm that and the regime is determined as well to to let the. more expert analysis on the situation in egypt plus a timeline of the recent protests in the most dramatic video always available a click away on our web site r.t. dot com. five hundred dollars that's the price the u.s. marine will pay for urinating on the corpses of taliban insurgents the marine was demoted and his pay docked after admitting to the desecration which falls afoul of the geneva convention investigation was launched after the act was caught on video

when it was posted on the net political activist david swanson thinks the sentence is too light and highlights how the u.s. military may be out of touch with reality in afghanistan. it's absurdly low it's insultingly low but so is the charge and i mean this is someone guilty of creating corpses of killing human beings who is then prosecuted for having desecrated them after the fact this is this is the problem with our culture of violence that we that we think we're going to civilized war that if we didn't cut off the fingers and you're an aid on the bodies then it would be ok so we have a long ways to go to get into to a better legal as well as moral understanding because americans like to think that their government must have some justification for what it does it builds the idea that it is folk a to occupy the nations of other people we had an incident this week in the united states of other former soldier attacking

a mosque to seek revenge for u.s. soldiers who had lost their lives of broad without stopping to understand that they were occupying someone else's country so we have this rule in hatred for muslims for afghans for pakistanis in the united states it is it is the doing of the u.s. government and its occupations and its drone wars but the longer they go on the more that ill will builds both at home and of course in the nations the not hide and being subjected to drone strikes that you're watching our team still to come the problems continue mounting for greece as of now four of the country's main banks looking for ways to stay afloat after posting massive losses we take a closer look at why plus. look in my career now with minister of regional cooperation and industry it was a group cultural event of housing and construction it's never about even the

minister of justice and even how difficult the new t.v. is for israel already is for elections amid rising concerns over the country's political process is this. more after a short break. looking at some talks you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strength in canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a laska and so i felt at home the first blood joke was brought here from australia now let's try and come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's

not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top. grazing who set the trail ablaze but a nun and for all friends who brought their dia to life. five years ago mother porus carer built a dog kennel in the village kids from the local op when it came around to take care of the dogs and one day they stayed there life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their four legged friends but smother her scare also encourages her kids to become debt hands on the computer and internet the boys who regularly update their website and they're in touch with their business mother twenty four seven on the phone. but children are the most important thing my only interests not

play any role anymore and regardless of whether parsky was huskies win the race or not she hopes the competition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the weaning but truly just the taking part that counts. on the edge of human capability. struggling with pain. to become. for. the. wealthy british.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert the no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into khan's report. thanks for staying with us on our t.v. ten minutes past the hour now in moscow the lower house of parliament passed a bill that bans u.s. citizens from adopting russian orphans legislation is seen by many as a response to washington so-called magnitsky list which president putin describes as anti russian but the measure also follows a series of child abuse cases involving american foster families some you have been

resulting in the death of a child and she takes a look. the duction agreement that russia and the us signed in the vampire was designed to provide mechanisms of oversight for russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children schoolgirls here are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents when you have no idea of what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their get better just surviving the case of alan who was adopted from russia and she was placed in a home of a tete a file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told reporters and such that she

waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency that question there would come back and check on her and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judges have shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year olds in my jacket he was acquitted after she forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke. the parents of russian born craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica beagley

probation after she went on the popular show and how she disciplined her adopted russian child by systematically cramming hot sauce into his mouth and putting him under a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washroom one not seen by it who was allegedly abused by his boss the parents according florida quoted them at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation of u.s. adoptions seems even more dire the u.s. accounts for around a third of all foreign adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year but the latest developments over whether that good work can continue the argument that if there's a flight is chance for an orphan to find a happy home they should be given that chance is undoubted but just as indisputable seems the or given that there has to be more oversight over the well being of these children because with the way things are now dozens of adoptive children could be subject to abuse right at this moment and we may never find out in washington i'm

going to come. on line for you right now your chance to own a luxury goods that once belonged to a president some of the in using leaders possessions like expensive cars and billions of dollars worth of jewels a wonder. and defeat for the opponents of indefinite detention as the u.s. senate passes a controversial addition to the national defense authorization act more on line at archie dud. all four of the largest banks in greece are lining up for a bailout boost after reporting huge losses this year together they'll need around twenty seven billion euros worth of loans to stay afloat the country's been relying

on international bailout funds since two thousand and ten and as economist demetrius in our poll as says it's ordinary greeks who are bearing the brunt of the bank's losses the loans on which. these. days asian banks think that it's going to take reste. from the troika the e.u. the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. and they are going to be aid they're going to be part of the and greek big national debt which is going to be paid by the greek taxpayers we have and forty thousand small businesses close in these three are alone three hundred additional thousands of job losses as a total unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really. on the one hand austerity on the other hand bank inability to

provide liquidity for the market. greece may be readying for another year of painful cuts and tax hikes but for a wider war the global economy stands at the end of the year you can tune into the kaiser report in less than an hour here on r.t. here's what max has to say. it's been since the beginning of the global financial collapse governments are eating their own debt vomit central banks are smoking their own belly button led an analyst still don't know whether we have deflation inflation hyperinflation. christmas for many means a time of year to give gifts but some of them might not make it around until next christmas so think twice before buying that novelty gift if you don't want it to end up in the trash the next morning artie's probably a boy explains. most of us know the problem for someone celebrating after the

twentieth christmas buying a present can be perplexing there's nothing they need to examine to own already to the invention of your humorous christmas present for example the christmas jumper what happens to the presents the day off the christmas tree ever been given you a christmas present every christmas and easter them away on boxing day. for me give it away because i just about myself feel better and then there are the kids to give me an example of a useless christmas present you may have to say. i was given a call from work. for make up for that on so you can hear the other. team aguy over light woman in a bikini when you pull the hot water and she becomes like it so the candy tails off what was that an itchy coat hanger i miss it can't hang now have either been given like chunks of christmas stuff that you just throw away on boxing day yes what was that going to be just. pretty heavily yeah we just bought some junk to christmas i

think i might have just bought some junk for christmas. play on boxing day it's not actually a story christmas presents away along with we just came from the strike and so we had a christians before we came and so i over stuff all the crap that we got given. straight into the bin junk for christmas no less presents sometimes yes you carry them unless absolutely not much to do with them. usually i just give them to my sister i have actually i've received coloring crayons a few years ago so they didn't last long and. i don't like her anymore and i don't think i did any more. so worried about the state of the planet say that the problem nowadays is that the last of the items on sale don't have any purpose whatsoever the design to squeeze a loss out to the recipient and then been done boxing day. say this feel free to fit get some buy

a present you'll be saving the environment while you're on tend. to some other stories making international headlines right now suicide blast at a political rally in northwest pakistan is left nine dead and more than twenty wounded among those killed in the incident that provincial government official attending as well as secretary a pakistani militant group linked to the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. thousands. police and thousands of protesters have clashed in india's capital leaving several injured demonstrators were calling for six men to get the death penalty after they were accused of the gang rape and brutal beating of a twenty three year old student prosecutors are seeking life in prison for the suspect . and security staff at the unity government building in belfast have intercepted five letters containing bullets latest incident of the bitter dispute over the city council's controversial ruling to

limit the number of days the british flag is flown free of the politicians who got the deaf red to belong to northern ireland's pro peace alliance party. only in the news blog for israel the new year will be followed with new parliamentary elections after the government failed to agree on a new budget for many regular voting is the very essence of democracy but the rapid turnaround of ministers and governments is leading to calls for an overhaul of the country's political system archy's paullus leader reports. call us money as you know him but in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigration a letter option and minister of justice even how this tenuously that it does not mean i'm talented it is just shows that the system was so messed up they be toy. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's

a new israeli government almost every two years and a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as. a young citizen ghost elections so many times you starts to lose the sense that this is a democracy not by nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from eighty to sixty four percent where she went to be able. to keep it as eventually as it was. but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted blah blah blah blah. blah prime minister says he must call for elections because he can't pass the budget he's scared that his coalition members

may bring down his government and we will act as if. we really say there's no problem with our system. critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. we're going to show more that we system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox ultra rightists right wing extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's crissy the minority rule with the majority what. another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan. today and minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision and a long term planning he's no longer there. what many of these people want

is a complete overhaul of the system but parliamentary elections slated for early next year israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but they told him and it is. biggest suggesting more than hof this population is unhappy with its government's performance. and in a few minutes our teammates were some of russia's most famous paralympic athletes to hear their stories of courage and success in the face of great odds stay with us . trymaine isn't this true even for specialists

a voice can produce several sounds it warms. the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from the unions believe not only animals but also surrounded objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls imitating the sounds they believe can capture the power of nature. through our special instruments that accompany the singing guinea says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed the course was revived as an instrument that was it of suppositional

is because of the spirit of the horse going to his dream he said make an instrument from a tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings. and to remember the. make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again you which means come back and this melody on these human is called croix de guerre. the. two boys one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour pruitt they say for you were p. and since difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me and see if i can do it. cheerily the children were. shared oh you shared their order that was sure to say can you know who was to

take the gang are woke. up. but now it is the and moody part of the song and not the actual throat singing which i wouldn't even dare try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this i thought so until i met she looks like it to vini and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most s. too far in mind so that you come from two hundred years ago until sappy here she's not planning a professional singing career but she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature.

since childhood footy america has always stood out from the spears he hates losing and has never missed a single training session he came first in everything he had swimming ballroom dancing or chess at the age of sixteen or started to lift weights four years later he took on the bronze medal in weightlifting from the london paralympics. coming in third place at the olympic games was his first serious defeat. and then you're going to win the bronze medal for me was poor consolation because when you know that you really could do better it was that you could show a much better result of course that upsets you but i'm only twenty two for it isn't that the those are my first paralympic games so the result was a good start and i must keep up this level and move forward to go.

to avoid the i was born with a spinal injury when his mother was leaving the hospital they told her she had to do some special massages and he would be able to walk to help her son the dish to become a coach and adapted physical education every day to special exercises hoping for a miracle however the boy could never stand on his feet to walk. it was very difficult i had stupid thoughts in my head when we were at a hospital with him i even thought of jumping out the window with my son i even wished he was mentally handicapped so he would not understand that he could not walk but my husband told me i think about what you're saying do you think you'll feel any better do you think you will feel any better. this is so where except at the sad truth and began to fight. my grandfather saw it on t.v. . the vehicle powered by the arts and by it was

a really special vehicle for people with leg disabilities. they used to write it very often and he drove it literally everywhere but of. the many years his homemade ham bike to go to a regular school in russia children with disabilities received home schooling as a rule but for his parents it was a question of principle. did not consider himself to be disabled. in the world there are three steps going into the school building about half a metre away and once he fell over. and after that the headmaster wanted us to take your e-mails all the time but i said no it's no big deal if a child falls down happens to everyone when their kids. are gone because you and we made him go outside for a walk when he was driving his hand bike his knees were shaking because of the atmosphere around him he saw that people looked at him and it made him very tense but for the mayor was elected class president after lessons were over he never had in the.